Anonymous (18th Century)

Scenes from The Tale of Genji

细节

Anonymous (18th Century)
Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper
61 3/8 x 142¾in. (156 x 362.8cm.) (2)

来源

Previously sold, Sotheby's, New York, 21 March, 1997, lot 169

拍品专文

Twelve scenes or chapters from the fifty-four chapters of the famous eleventh-century tale are illustrated on this pair of screens. Six scenes are arranged on each screen, beginning with Chapter 1, "The Paulownia Court," at the upper right of the right screen, and ending with Chapter 43, "The Rose Plum," at the upper left of the left screen. The darker chapters, set in Uji, are not included here. Prominent at the bottom center of the right screen is Chapter 7, "An Autumn excursion," and at the bottom of the left screen is Chapter 24, "Butterflies."